Indian writer and artist Sonali Prasad’s current compositions examine social, scientific, and environmental conditions through artistic mediums and related language use. What soundings and textures are easily recognized, how those can be given new properties, and what routes can be set anew. She experiments with form and has used traditional and creative media practices, including longform reporting, poetry, data, documentary, installations, and visual art.
Her journalism has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, Hakai Magazine, Mongabay, Quartz, and Esquire Singapore. She has been awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, Global TED Fellowship and an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, among other grants and honours.
Her debut novel, Glass Bottom, was published with Picador India (2024), who called it their ‘literary debut of the year’. It was listed in Telegraph India’s ‘The page turners of 2024: Fiction’ among esteemed writers such as Samantha Harvey, Jhumpa Lahiri and Percival Everett, and has been shortlisted for the Kalinga Literary Festival Book Award in the category ‘Debut (English)’.
Lectures, panels, and workshops: TED Women, MIT Open Ocean Lab, Harvard Climate Leadership Program, Wellesley College (Massachusetts), India Culture Lab, TEDxGateway, and various International Olympic Committee conferences.